Cantsdam

Cant is a common family name in Fife. This site is where the old Great North Road, the important overland route between Edinburgh and Inverness crossed the Netherton or Lochfitty Burn. According to Silver, work was done on Cantsdam Bridge in 1722 (1987, 21). OS Name Book (1853 × 1856 7, 44) says that Cantsdam is the name of ‘a few neat cottages feus [sic] off of Cocklaw Estate, occupiers mechanics and agricultural labourers’.